Hallowell Celebrates It 250th Anniversary!

Warren St. School, Hallowell, ca. 1890These would be very young 7th graders! Click the headline above the picture to see what the real Hall-Dale students have been up to this year. Item Contributed byHubbard Free Library

Nowhere in Maine is so much history and life packed into such a small, accessible and inviting environment.

The history of Hallowell is one that is linked to the earliest settlement of America, and began in what might seem like the most unlikely of places -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a place to live -- their dream was to build a commercial and cultural center that would be second to none in the state.